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After her parents' separation, twelve-year-old Shari is forced to deal with her resentment. Even worse, her mother relocates to New York, leaving her father and two brothers in California. We get to see how Shari eventually resolves the conflict that is marring her relationship with her mother, but the story introduces another element. Readers are invited to travel with Shari as she makes new friends, takes a thrilling tour of the Bronx Zoo an...

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Throwing children of different races together will not automatically foster friendships and deep connections. It takes effort to create multiculturalism awareness. This teen novel helps to initiate discussions on diversity, stereotyping and privilege. Same age, same height, same grade-they could have been identical twins, but they were not. Yet they lived in the same imperfect world with overwhelming family problems. Greg's father had walked o...

She Likes Sugar is a coming-of-age romantic novel. What else could go wrong? At seventeen, Jen has yet to recover emotionally from the death of her parents eight years ago. She has drifted into an unhealthy, dependent relationship with her twin sister, Josie. Change does not come easy for Jen. Now she must deal with an unforgivable assault by her uncle while facing an indefensible betrayal by Josie, who is 'the other woman' in what is looking ...

Six teenagers from the Bronx, 3 blacks, a Chinese, an Italian and a Puerto Rican, set out to explore a cave in their neighborhood. The cave exploration is a washout but after falling down a ledge, the six find that they have time-travelled three centuries into the future! Here, the Bronx is a heavily wooded forest, unexplored by a tribe of people living there The teens rescued a boy from a tribe living in the Bronx and he took them to his peop...

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